The big picture is well-known: over the last century, religion in
Britain has lost power, popularity, and plausibility. Here, Steve
Bruce charts the quantifiable changes in religious interest and
observance over the last fifty years by returning to a number of
towns and villages that were the subject of detailed community
studies in the 1950s and 1960s, to see how the status and nature of
religion has changed. Drawing on both detailed data on baptism
rates, church weddings, church attendance and the like, and on his
extensive fieldwork, he considers the broader picture of religion
today: the status of the clergy, the churches' attempts to find new
roles, links between religion and violence, and the impact of the
charismatic movement. Along the way, Bruce encounters and engages
with the contemporary rise of secularism, considering our everyday
secular tensions with religion: arguments over moral issues such as
abortion and gay rights, the effect of social class on belief, the
impact of religion on British politics, and the ways that local
social structures strengthen or weaken religion. Analysing the
obstacles to any religious revival, he explores how the current
stock of religious knowledge is so depleted, religion so unpopular,
and committed believers so scarce that any significant reversal of
religion's decline in Britain is unlikely.
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